Bullshit and rhetoric
Orcinus has an update on his Media Manifesto. It seems we're going a bit deeper than just fact-checking. Interestingly enough, Lambert's Open Source blogging tool thing would specifically disinclude Movable Type and Blogger…I get ahead of myself, but I may not be the only one.
I will definitely be watching, because the bare outlines presented so far aren't impossible. The major effect of the Internet on activism seems to be greasing the skids when setting up organizations.
I haven't gotten to all the links Orcinus provides, but I will. I am frankly skeptical about design-by-committee efforts. The Media Mini-Monolith created by a formal effort would have to make choices about what to present, like any other media service…which seems to be what is being suggested. So I'd need to be clear on what would make this one different from IndyMedia before committing to such a thing.
